West Coast Maritime Training is adding more classes The deadline for the STCW Leadership and Managerial Skills required training is quickly coming due – 31 December 2016.   It is not enough...

Last week, West Coast Maritime Training held their first ever Leadership and Managerial Skills Training in Las Vegas, NV.   Students and their families came from as far as New Hampshire. ...

  By Jaquelyn Burton (Coeval, Inc.) For many of the everyday practices in the maritime world – there are standards. Some are regulatory, still others are policy, some are habitual and...

  11 July 2016– West Coast Maritime Training, Ltd  announced they will begin holding the USCG required Leadership and Managerial Skills training as mandated by the STCW in Las Vegas,...

Looking into a career at sea? Your help is need now more than ever. That’s according to a new report by BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping, which predicts...

  New approved school opens for maritime officers Bremerton, WA, April 18, 2016– West Coast Maritime Training, Ltd  held its grand opening last week with its first class of nine maritime...

by Jaquelyn Burton, (Coeval) So much of our time in the maritime industry – both afloat and ashore is devoted to planning. But, how much planning is the right amount –...

Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.

On the west coast of Norway, just past the corner where the rocky coast begins to curve to the east and on upwards to the cold and remote subarctic and...

PRESS RELEASE – Seagull has released the Bulker Industry Training Standard (BITS), a predefined competence management system for the dry bulk industry. BITS is a computer-based evaluation tool to enhance...

Rear Admiral Joseph Servidio has formally appointed Amy Beavers, Vice President of Regulatory Compliance at Florida-based maritime school Maritime Professional Training, to the position of Vice Chair of the Merchant Marine Personnel...

PRESS RELEASE – Horten, Norway 28 February, 2014: The world leader in computer based training systems for shipping companies, Seagull AS has acquired all the shares in e-learning specialist MindIT...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has announced that the United State's six state maritime academies will receive $1 million for education and training from a government program that recycles obsolete vessels.

ARI Simulation has delivered a complete suite of integrated offshore simulators to India’s NUSI Offshore Training Institute (NOTI), the world’s most technologically advanced, dedicated offshore training facility. These simulators include...

Lloyd’s Register provides LNG as Fuel training course to support understanding of the realities of using LNG as marine bunkers. Next three courses are in North America in November The...

"For the first time there will be single national standards for competency for seafarers and safe operation of vessels operating in near-coastal waters,” says AMSA CEO Graham Peachey Peachey.

When Coast Guard boat crews go out to train, they like to make things as real as possible.  That means that when rough weather rolls in, it’s time to go...

by Will Watson The scourge of piracy has affected the maritime industry in many ways and one significant change; Piracy now plays a much larger role in security officer training...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_FLaMLIsv0 Oceanografia S.A. de C.V., one of Mexico’s largest offshore vessel operators specializing in underwater survey, diving, pipe laying construction and maintenance operations, has signed a multimillion dollar contract with...

Technology is changing the shipping industry.  Regulations affecting the shipping industry are constantly changing and evolving.  The way in which we conduct routine operations onboard vessels changes as standard practices...